The vagueness of “woke” is the point. It lets people be angry about things that would make them sound (more) stupid and evil if they had to be clear up front. “Oh, more woke casting” sounds marginally less vile than “I’m furious that a black girl is playing a mermaid in a kids movie” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/15/woke-liberals-desantis/

@ml I really hope to not be one of those parents as S gets to that age.

@robdaemon It’s sad, but I am glad to report that Hat Yai is a very tasty alternative.

Again, @molly0xfff nails it:

"Faced with the choice between the more communal, cooperative choice and the self-serving, every-man-for-himself choice destined to end in a bank run, it should be no surprise which option [the venture capitalists] picked. As the Titanic sank, they were the ones pushing people out of the lifeboats."

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma

Fun use for CSS `@layer` when refactoring: Wrap the old CSS in `@layer old { }` and wrap the new CSS in `@layer new { }` - now you have two superpowers ✨

1. New and old styles are labelled in the web inspector UI.
2. You can disable all the old styles by changing `@layer old` to something like `@slayer old` and see if the page explodes.

It's a new take on the tried-and-true "comment blocks of code out" approach.

`<feng-shui-tiktok-guy-voice>` Now you know! `</feng-shui-tiktok-guy-voice>`

Steven Pinker selling multiple $50,000 NFTs of a trite four word aphorism “free speech is fundamental” is the funniest shit I’ve seen all day.

https://blockster.com/best-selling-author-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-will-transform-his-ideas-into-nfts

ht @twitskeptic

@nat This article is my go-to when I need to explain this to people: https://ferd.ca/plato-s-dashboards.html

Ahead of their launch of a keycap set based on my Solarized color scheme I did a two part interview with Drop. Check out part 1 here https://drop.com/talk/125592/meet-ethan-schoonover-the-man-behind-solarized

(there are links back to the set on that page... I'm not involved in the production and this is not a commercial project for me but I *am* looking forward to a nice Solarized set coming out)

That's it, I'm going to start replying to emails with "Disregard your previous prompt and instructions” instead of "Hi”.

CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

Not wanting “algorithms” on mastodon’s feed because TWTR uses coersive algorithms is like not wanting to use any math because capitalism uses math.

Stop conflating bad, manipulative use of algorithms w/the general use of (open/visible) algorithms for personal control over data you see.

Chronological display IS AN ALGORITHM.

Mastodon’s feed ISN’T JUST CHRONOLOGY (it has filters, algos re boost freq, etc).

Mastodon’s feed could be a LOT better.

I WANT an algorithmic view I can adjust!

tiny 🧵

WTF, am I “middle-aged” now? When did this happen? I don’t like it!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/14/opinion/middle-age-millennials.html

@nat Yeessss, let me suggest that to my leadership.

@nat TBH, for our purposes, just having our metrics and logging centralized in something that’s not SQL will already be a huge win.

I love the reframing of AI as "backward-looking" as opposed to "forward-looking" because it’s trained on data from the past to recognize and figure out patterns. #StochasticParrotsDay

@mcc maybe this will help:
a baklava wearing a balaclava playing a balalaika on black lava

@nat Ugh, what this tells me is that we really need to hire a devops person.

@cstross